Bea Lehmann

UBC will continue to communicate weather related exam cancellations in the same manner as last year, with students and faculty notified by UBC’s social media channels, including UBC’s main and media relations X (formerly Twitter) accounts, Facebook and website.

The City of Vancouver has released a new tool to speed up permitting times for laneway houses, with the hope of addressing housing supply gaps.

At the first meeting of the new triennium on Wednesday night, the UBC Senate approved course and degree changes and discussed the creation of a committee to assess UBC’s international partnerships.

If you’re wondering what hyper-local weather forecasting means, think about a time when a weather app has told you it’s partly sunny with clouds, even as you’re getting soaked by a downpour.

College Care Package Co., a start-up co-founded by former and current Sauder School of Business students Vrinda Gupta and Pratham Jaswell, wants to help incoming students settle into their new homes at UBC.

UBC students will soon be able to take two new three-credit courses in the Yiddish language under the course codes YDSH 101 and 102.

The UBC Vancouver Senate met Wednesday night to discuss course scheduling, international agreements and graduate regalia amendments for Indigenous students.

The AMS will continue to use CampusBase as the platform for club operations, with a planned launch of a help centre for club members set for April 2023.

Mathew Ho running for student senator-at-large on a campaign of greater transparency for course information and improving experiential learning opportunities.

First-year arts student Kareem Hassib is running for student senator-at-large on a platform of reconciliation, accessibility and equitable processes for academic misconduct.

Incumbent senator-at-large Romina Hajizadeh is running for her second term on a platform of increasing engagement with students and prioritizing equity, diversity and inclusion.

The updated recommendations state that “drinking alcohol, even a small amount, is damaging to everyone, regardless of age, sex, gender, ethnicity, tolerance for alcohol or lifestyle.”

Lynda Li, a fourth year kinesiology student at UBC, received the Thomas Clarkson Award at the 2022 Global Undergraduate Award summit in Dublin, Ireland.

On Saturday afternoon UBC students, led by the 2SLGBTQ+ engineering club Gears & Queers, hosted a cairn-painting event to commemorate Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR).

Recent online posts have drawn attention to a variety of problems, including wet floors and counters, clogged sinks and toilets and bad odours.

Hundreds of UBC students gathered Friday afternoon at a walkout led by Sprouts Cafe to protest rising food insecurity, reduced funding and a perceived lack of support from the university.

On Friday, September 30, community members gathered at UBC the second annual Intergenerational March to commemorate National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and show support for residential school and intergenerational survivors.